Improvement in automatic lighting devices for gas-burners



W. W. HANNAH, AUTOMATIC LIGHTING-DEVICE FOR GAS-BIURNERS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. HANNAH, OF HUDSON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMNT IN AUTOMATIC LIGHTING DEVICES FOR GAS-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,260, dated August 22, 1876; application led June 3,1876.

To all whoml it may concern:

Be it known that-I, WILLIAM of the city of Hudson, in the State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Automatic Lighter for Gas-Burners, of which the following is aspecification: l

Letters Patent of' the United States, No. i 170,913, were issued to Henry S. Stockwell and Albert R. Weiss December 7, 1875, for automatic lighter for gas-burners. My img provement is particularly applicable to this lighter; and is designed to remedy a defect in their construction which has been to me a source of annoyance- I mean the inconven- I ience and difficulty of inserting the fulminateribbon when required.

rlhe object of invention is toso construct l the guideway or channel for the fulminateribbon that it shall be more accessible, more v easily inserted and replaced by removing,v from the Stockwell and Weiss lighter what l they call the guide-piece, which is fixed and permanent,`being cast in one piece with the i guard-flange next to the gas-socket, and substituting in its place a movable or replaceable guide-piece or bottom to the ribbon-channel, connecting it permanently with and to l the inside of the arm of the pivoted cover of I, This' guide-piece, cover, and arm can all be cast in one piece, or be ,Y stamped or struck out dat, and the guidepiece afterward raised or turned up at right angles to the arm and cover. By attaching this guide-piece or channel-bottom to the arm of the cover, so as to be removed and swung back away .from the ribbon whenever the magazine is uncovered to remove and replace the same, makes it also, in the principle of its operation, automatic, since its advantages are gained, or oiice necessarily performed, by the equally necessary opening of the magazine to permit the removal and replacement of the ribbons.

When the magazine is thus uncovered the back side of the ribbon is entirely open, and

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accessible from the coil in the magazine up to the pivot-socket and anvil. This construction enables o ne easily to introduce the ribbon under the slide-piece or feeder and the hammer, for when the hammer is raised, as in turning onthe gas, (the magazine being open,) there is nothing in .the way ofthe ribbon. By closing the magazine the guide-piece B, or bottom ot' the ribbon-channel, is replaced, and ready for use.

The arm ot' the swing-cover forms the guardflange on the outside of the guide-piece, same as it does in the patent above referred to.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a front View or elevation of the lighter with the cover swung oft the-magazine, the bottom and one side of the ribbon-channel being also necessarily removed or swung from their respect-1 ive places. Fig. 2 is a side view or elevation, showing the back of guide-piece or bottom of ribbon-channel in place, as when the maga-v zine is closed, the pivoted cover being in place, ready for use. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the cover-arm and guide-piece or channel-bottom.

The pivoted cover, having the bottom B of the guide-channel attached to/its arm, andthe slide-piece or feeder in its operation pressing upon it, renders it necessary to lock or fasten the For this purpose I cut av gain or notch in the upper edge of the rim of cover in its nlace.

the ribbon barrel or magazine, and provide the cover with a beveled catch to .lit into it.

Other equivalent devices may be used for this W. W. HANNAH.

Witnesses SHERMAN VAN NEss, J AcoB M. WITBEcK. 

